English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)
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English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)
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Frederick Frederick William Herschel is English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871).
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